Mr. Trouble on Feet Turns THREE!

On the menu for breakfast in the bathtub:  banana chocolate chip muffins.  Everyone had two.

There were presents!  Of course, several books were opened, as well as a new cape and alphabet crown, so Mr. TOF could pretend to be Super Alphabet Guy or King of the ABC’s.  He loves to sing the alphabet, so I couldn’t resist when I saw an alphabet birthday crown.  Mr. SP decorated a special number three, which turned out to be a big hit.  Sarah made a dangling number three out of cardboard that looked like a road and had cars driving on it.  This was also a big hit.  The Banana made playdough scented with koolaid packets that we picked out special at the grocery store.  She had fun making it, and Mr. TOF and she played and played all day with it.  I loved how Mr. TOF appreciated his sibling gifts so much.  

We headed to church, where everyone in the nursery made a big deal about the birthday boy.  After lunch I finished up the cake, and Dr. Peds was able to zip home just long enough to join us for a tiny party.  Our neighbor across the street shares Mr. TOF’s birthday, and I knew his wife was gone for the weekend, so when we saw him mowing the lawn we invited him over for cake, along with a neighbor on the other side of our house who always lets the kidlets come over and play with her dogs.  Mr. TOF loved having them over and got so sad when the second neighbor left that he cried.

Mr. TOF had no expectations for his birthday cake, but his siblings vividly remembered the strawberry layer cake that we made last year and begged to have that again.  Since we had been given a large bucket of wonderful strawberries from a friend, it worked out perfectly.  Dr. Peds couldn’t keep the candles lit, so in the end we just went with the three plain candles.  Mr. SP gave him a little help blowing them out.

The event Mr. TOF was MOST excited about regarding his birthday was eating pizza.  He had equated pizza with his birthday weeks ago, and couldn’t wait for the pizza to arrive.  He devoured many pieces.  The big kidlets loved eating pizza too.  I am so glad to be done with pizza diapers!  It makes the prospect of pizza so much more enjoyable.

All day he practiced making three fingers and carefully saying the word “three.”

The weather was the perfect temperature all day, but the sky was filled with dark, blue clouds, and we kept wondering if all of the sudden the sky would just open and rain would pour out.  It did not, until late at night when everyone was in bed.  Determining that it would not rain, the kidlets and I loaded up the van and decided to spend the evening at the sand beach.  We took along the wonderful green tractor that Papa and Grandma Robbie gave Mr. TOF for his birthday, suspecting that he might enjoy dumping and scooping sand.  He did.

There was a lot going on at the beach, and among the most exciting were several sea planes landing and taking off from the harbor airport.

I don’t ask for a these types of pictures, all four kidlets together very often, but since we were there to celebrate a birthday, I did.  True to form, they never did actually all look in the same direction at the same time, but still I like the images.